Sister Profile

Sister Kathryn Koressel

Formerly Sister Alfreda Marie

Sister Kathryn was born on July 27, 1927 and died on December 7, 2017.

Biography

Sister Karhryn, formerly Sister Alfreda Marie, was born in 1927 in Evansville, Indiana. She died on December 7, 2017. She was 90 years old and had been a Sister of Providence for 73 years.

Sister Kathryn entered the Congregation in 1944. She professed final vows in 1952.

Sister Kathryn graduated from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College with a bachelor’s degree in education and earned a master’s degree from Indiana State University.

She ministered as a teacher for 39 years in schools in Indiana, Illinois, Oklahoma and North Carolina. Her first teaching ministry took place at St. Agnes, Chicago, in 1947. She also ministered as a teacher at Annunciation School in Brazil from 1976 to 1986.She began a ministry at Providence Retirement Home in New Albany in 1987 and in 2007, she returned to the Motherhouse.

She was a huge fan of football and opera.

Obituary

Read her obituary here.

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Several Sisters of Providence celebrated Jubilees in December. They were honored at a celebration with the Sisters of Providence General Council. The sisters celebrating Jubilees included (front, seated) Sister Ann Jeanette Gootee, (second row) General Council member Sister Mary Beth Klingel, Sisters Mildred Giesler and Kathryn Koressel, General Superior Sister Denise Wilkinson, and Sisters Dorothy Hucksoll, Miriam Clare Stoll, Marie Victoria Podesta, Florence Norton and Kathleen Mary Gay, (back) General Council member Sister Dawn Tomaszewski, Sister Anne Krause, and General Council members Sister Lisa Stallings and Sister Jenny Howard.
Sister Mary Lois Hennel (front, from left) and Bishop Charles C. Thompson with Sister Rita Clare Gerardot, (back) along with Sisters Kathryn Koressel, Editha Ben and Mary Mundy. Photo provided by Peewee C. Vasquez.